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THE OFFERING OF THE LORD - Minchah, here in the general sense of
“gift or offering” to God (compare Malachi 1:10; Malachi 3:3). In
its restricted sense, it is used of the meat offerings, the unbloody...
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3. THE FAILURE OF ELI AND HIS SONS
CHAPTER 2:12-36
_ 1. The wicked sons of Eli (1 Samuel 2:12)_
2. Samuel before Jehovah and Hannah blessed (1 Samuel 2:18)
3. The empty warning of Eli (1 Samuel 2:
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1 SAMUEL 2:12 WICKEDNESS OF THE SONS OF EU.
1 Samuel 2:12. Belial (see 1 Samuel 1:16).
1 Samuel 2:12 f. Move full stop from
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SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44.
MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14....
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_the young men_ Hophni and Phinehas.
_men abhorred_ Rather, THE MEN DESPISED, or, BROUGHT INTO CONTEMPT THE
OFFERING OF JEHOVAH. The Sept. omits _the men_. Corruption in the
priesthood begets profani...
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The faithless priests of Shiloh
12. _sons of Belial_ WORTHLESS MEN. See note on 1 Samuel 1:16.
_they knew not the_Lord] Were ignorant of His character and so
despised His laws. Cp. Judges 2:10; Job 1...
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2. The Childhood of Samuel, 1 Samuel 2:12 to 1 Samuel 3:21.
_Eli's sinful sons._ 1 Samuel 2:12-17
12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.
13 And the priests-' custom with...
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_ALSO BEFORE THEY BURNT THE FAT, THE PRIEST'S SERVANT CAME, AND SAID
TO THE MAN THAT SACRIFICED, GIVE FLESH TO ROAST FOR THE PRIEST; FOR HE
WILL NOT HAVE SODDEN FLESH OF THEE, BUT RAW._
No JFB commen...
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2:17 offering (b-17) _ Minchah_ , 'oblation.' see Note b, Leviticus
1:3...
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HANNAH'S SONG OF THANKSGIVING. THE SIN OF ELI'S SONS
1-10. The Song of Hannah.
This beautiful poem has been well called the 'Magnificat of the Old
Testament.' The song of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:46)...
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FOR MEN ABHORRED] rather, 'for the men (i.e. the sons of Eli)
despised.'...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 2
HANNAH’S PRAYER
V1 Hannah prayed and said,
‘I am very happy when I think about the *Lord....
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THE SIN OF THE YOUNG MEN WAS VERY GREAT. — _Grave peccatum
sacerdotum ob scandalurn datum laicis_ (“the sin of the priests was
a great one, because it put a stumbling-block in the way of the
people”)....
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(11-36) The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary — The
Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli — The Doom of the House of
Ithamar....
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וַ תְּהִ֨י חַטַּ֧את הַ נְּעָרִ֛ים
גְּדֹולָ֥ה...
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CHAPTER IV.
_ ELI'S HOUSE._
1 Samuel 2:11.
THE notices of little Samuel, that alternate in this passage with the
sad accounts of Eli and his house, are like the green spots that vary
the dull stretc...
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GROWING BEFORE THE LORD
1 Samuel 2:12
Not only were Eli's sons strangers to the power of religion in the
heart, but they had gone to great lengths of profligacy. They had
seized on a larger share of...
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We have the record of the song of triumph sung by Hannah, in which she
set forth the might and justice of Jehovah. Thus, in the dark and
troublous times, Jehovah is seen acting toward deliverance, by...
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Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for
men (o) abhorred the offering of the LORD.
(o) Seeing the horrible abuse of it....
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Lord. People, seeing that the law was not observed, refrained from
presenting victims. (Menochius) --- They are but too apt to follow the
bad example of their teachers. (Haydock) --- Hence God punishe...
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(13) And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man
offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in
seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; (14) An...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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_‘LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT’_
‘Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.…
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord,
and also with men.’
1 Samu...
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In the beautiful song of 1 Samuel 2 Hannah recognises this great
principle of sovereign grace, and of the power of God; that He brings
down the proud and those who trust in the flesh, and exalts the w...
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WHEREFORE THE SIN OF THE YOUNG MEN WAS VERY GREAT BEFORE THE LORD,....
That is, the sons of Eli; for they were the ringleaders who set these
bad examples, which other priests followed, and therefore t...
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Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for
men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
Ver. 17. _Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great._] The
greater because they w...
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_Nay, but thou shalt give it me now_, &c. This was the very height of
haughty impiety. That such submissive language did not prevail with
them to have so much respect for God, as to permit his portion...
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1 Hannahs song in thankefulnesse.
12 The sinne of Elies sonnes.
18 Samuels ministerie.
20 By Elies blessing, Hannah is more fruitfull.
22 Eli reprooueth his sonnes.
28 A prophecie against Elies h...
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The Wicked Practices of Eli's Sons...
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Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, it
was an outrage equivalent to sacrilege; FOR MEN ABHORRED THE OFFERING
OF THE LORD, they despised and blasphemed it as a form of gr...
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The rejoicing prayer of Hannah is now uttered AFTER she has given up
her child. The prayer of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, reminds
us of this one, though hers was spoken before he child was bor...
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11-26 Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from
a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable
of. As he did this with a pious disposition of mind, it was c...
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THE SIN OF THE YOUNG MEN WAS VERY GREAT; because they violently took
away both man's and God's dues, and this before their time, and that
with manifest contempt of God and men; and all this merely for...
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1 Samuel 2:17 sin H2403 men H5288 very H3966 great H1419 before H6440
LORD H3068 men H582 abhorred H5006 ...
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THE RISE OF SAMUEL AND THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ELI (1 SAMUEL 2:12 TO
1 SAMUEL 3:1).
In this section we now have a description of the careful build up of
Samuel's ministry and of his own spiritual gro...
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1 SAMUEL 1-4
_(with Judges 21:16)_
I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great
fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes
an admirable servant, who does...
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CONTENTS: Hannah's prophetic prayer. Evil sons of Eli. Samuel in the
tabernacle. The warning to Eli.
CHARACTERS: God, Hannah, Eli, Samuel, Hophni, Phinehas, Elkanah, a
prophet.
CONCLUSION: Nothing i...
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1 Samuel 2:1. _Hannah said, my heart rejoiceth._ This song is much
admired: the lines form a constellation of appropriate beauties. The
composition is perfect in its kind. The phrases are short, and t...
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_Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial._
INDULGENT HOME LIFE
I. The sins it induces. The sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are the more
prominent, so we will contemplate,
1. Their conduct and character....
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:11 At the same time that the boy Samuel
is ministering to the Lord (vv. 1 Samuel 2:11, 1
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:12 These verses describe how the
WORTHLESS... SONS OF ELI (v. 1 Samuel 2:12) treated the tabernacle
sacrifices...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 2:12. “SONS OF BELIAL.” See on Chapter 1 Samuel 1:16.
1 Samuel 2:13. They were not content with the portions assigned to
them by the Levitical law, namely, the...
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EXPOSITION
SAMUEL'S MINISTRATIONS AT SHILOH (1 Samuel 2:11-9).
1 SAMUEL 2:11
THE CHILD DID MINISTER. Left by his parents at Shiloh, Samuel
ministered unto the Lord; that is, certain du
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This book presents the history, the personal history of Samuel who was
the last of the Judges. It ushers in the beginning of the period of
the kings in the children of Israel, or among the children of...
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2 Kings 21:6; Genesis 10:9; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 6:11; Isaiah 3:8;...
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Abhorred — But we know the validity and efficacy of the sacraments
does not depend on the goodness of those that administer them. It was
therefore folly and sin in the people, to think the worse of Go...